giant corporations are ruled today. russia and the west hope to find common ground despite their polar approaches to and then this year we're going to bloodshed as foreign minister lavrov meets secretary of state hillary clinton in st petersburg. and surprising compromise you're making sessions to finally agree on finally money to struggling banks directly with talks of a possible summit running well into the night. plus as it had braces for fresh protests against military rule we look out for you holding a breast taking on the nation's people.

you're watching r.t. coming to you live from moscow i'm marina josh welcome to the program tough talks are on the table for russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov and u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton as they meet in same pittsburgh today to discuss syria the two powers are deeply divided on how the crisis in the middle east country should be resolved are often it has more from st petersburg if the two sides if rove and hillary clinton can come to some sort of i'd i positioned tonight in the meeting in st petersburg this really could drastically change the future of international action as it pertains to the syrian crisis the problem is that both sides have fundamentally different approaches to how we need to deal with this the u.s. has been pushing for a so-called yemeni style transition plan the first and foremost focuses on getting president bashar al assad out of office out of syria now the russian position has been that you know there's no need to have some sort of a backroom deal by world powers that doesn't include the actual syrians themselves

this is a crisis that the country is undergoing syrians in need to get together. and find some sort of a transition that works for them this should not be dictated by outside foreign powers the problem is that all of these sort of. opposing sides are really going to come head to head tomorrow which is when the emergency talks in geneva are going to be held put together by kofi on the months into this fear that the cease fire has not worked so far on one hand if you're getting together. discuss the future of syria all of the key regional player should be on the ball while the u.s. position has been no iran at the talks they do not want the iranians to be president. of the syrian government himself has said that the iranians must be present at these talks and yet this was a sticking point and as a result iran is not included and it really sort of. questions about whether any sort of agreement is really possible if the key regional players who you know whose

daily lives and geopolitical interests depend on what comes out of syria and depend on a stable syria are not involved. there in st petersburg well she'll be bringing us updates from the crucial meeting between russia and the u.s. on syria due to start later on friday and luce is also posting all the latest on her twitter feed so don't forget to check that out as well. now in syria itself president assad said in a rare interview that it's his government's duty to annihilate terrorists the interview coincided with an escalation of violence in the capital damascus that if the word is blaming terrorist groups in the latest incident two blast erupted near syria's main justice complex or just riffing off the visit of the site shortly after the attack. right now to see don't think that happened there and yet in the old damascus you can see it was the image pozen are taken away and the scene is now been cleaned this is

a public park and just. what was still receiving conflicting reports on how many people have been affected sana a syrian news agency is reporting that three people have been injured but it's very hard to confirm it's really hard to get any information about what happened here earlier today even on the ground the wrong many police and security people with the euro refused to talk and refused to provide any information on the incident the fact that these has happened in the very hard to the very center of the syrian capital rises questions and concerns over the security situation here in damascus has been under governmental control but now it's been attacked more and more often by rebels and groups this has happened to stay up another attack occurred here in damascus the main building on the syrian state run television syria news nobody is sudhir has been attacked by government says terrorist groups killing at least seven

people. right now for the reporting there from syria turkey has vowed to respond to the recent downing of its jag by syria with determination that as and deployed troops and tanks to the syrian border the turkish plane was shot down over the mediterranean a week ago terry king says the fire was hit zero were international waters were as serious as it was targeted in i.d.s. airspace jeremy salts who's a turkey based professor of middle eastern history and politics says another incident that stretched ties between ankara and damascus to breaking point. one has to see what's happening with the plane is a very significant. in the tension between syria and turkey and so you can respond to that by moving. up to the border that syria is doing the same on the other side so quite clearly even though it seems that nature doesn't

want to intervene in syria because of the danger is what is trying to do is to bring down the syrian government by just starting a war of attrition from within and also in cities like this who triggered you know a collision between the two countries and i think elation i mean one can say when it would happen if it would happen but that's right now. and for more on this here and krises again have their web site r.t. dot com and there you'll find video footage of pain by r.t. or when alleged massacre in the syrian city of hama a syrian family claims their relatives were slaughtered by rebels the story a more. now it's been a tough night in brussels were leaders had to make mutual concessions after several hours of bargaining they agreed to use the european bailout fund to funnel money directly to struggling banks a short term fix opposed by the german chancellor angela merkel well we'll have

more on this from our correspondent as our silly who isn't brussels later in the program. before that the protest mood in egypt doesn't seem to be subsiding despite the long anticipated announcement of the presidential vote results last weekend people again plan to take to the iconic to harir square this friday to demand a complete handover of power from the military to the country's newly elected leader but amid the never ending swarm of political demands the psychological stress ordinary egyptians are constantly under is often ignored as are these polls leader now explores. pain as war as it was the day it happened was just twenty one years old when he was killed near tahrir square the bullet that shattered his heart tore apart his family leaving his mother unable to carry on i don't know if i talk about him a lot i don't like to say that he's dead i see him in my dreams i'm waiting all the time for him to come home to me i beg god to bring him back. in the last eighteen

months each options have gone through one evolution three elections and countless mass protests the scars left by the unprecedented chaos and bloodshed and political battles run deep i saw people becoming more depressed more anxious using more drugs and alcohol those kinds of things seem to have changed because of the current events and the fear over what was happening next and it's not only those who are directly involved who have been affected in the only survey of its kind abdel moneim spoke to ordinary egyptians to see how they're coping she found that sixty percent of egyptians are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder of those forty seven percent have witnessed violence in the streets thirty four percent have stayed up late to watch television news reports of a violent nature and twenty eight percent feel stressed because the financial situation has deteriorated i do believe the public has been trying to lose especially since so things are

a lot different after the uprisings as we were before and people before used to enjoy a very low crime rate for example very little political change however after the uprising there was more crime there is an increase in crime wave which. which traumatized the public i think and the problems compounded because of the stigma attached with seeking help and this is only one of a handful of centers in cairo offering psychological assistance to people who need help but while some of those who were arrested and detained by the authorities have come here most egyptians have stayed away. but psychological help is the last thing on the news mind she can hardly scrape together enough money to buy food for her family she gets a little comfort from believing her son died for a cause but even that threatens to be wiped out as the country braces itself a fresh round of protests as anger against the ruling military. kyra. also i have for you here on our t.v.

facing a deadline well we have a set of her julian assange to turn himself over to you kate police and as ecuador still mulls over his request for asylum fears of outside pressure on the nation intensify. plus searching for energy independence by coming up for the u.k. seeking out foreign investors to help give it a boost but it's an enterprise that critics say be putting lives at risk. all right we can now turn to our correspondent who is in brussels to get the latest on the summit talks that opened yesterday well. it's been a grueling night and over. overnight talks rather and the decision was reached there so was the outcome expected. well first of all yes it has been a very very tough negotiations continued way into the night and even as they gave a briefing last night nothing really had come out of that that was very new now

what they did to spend a lot of time talking about was this new growth and jobs pact yet another another pact this essentially a rolling out one hundred twenty billion euros to help aid in the growth of the euro zone nations what's interesting is this is where the conflict head had come into the picture spain and italy were refusing to sign the pact until they had gotten the short term fix that they need to calm the markets and bring down their borrowing costs will they did get it in the end seen as a compromise from germany at this point that is using e.u. funds to recapitalize banks directly rather than giving the money to the government in order to avoid the public deficit from going up and this is particularly relevant to spain at this point however markets did react quickly so they were able to calm the markets whoever the question there is how long are the markets going to be calm we know that after the promise of that one hundred billion for spain the bailout where they had asked for the markets reacted positively and then the

borrowing costs went up again so is this going to last or is it just really going to be very very short term another question that we're good looking at is what are the strings attached you know germany was very much opposed to any short term measures until the long term structural reforms that merkel wants have been addressed so what are the details attached to this what are the conditions we still don't know that we have to see that in order to assess how significant this step is and also the growth rate of one hundred twenty billion that is really small compared to the entire euro zone so is this going to balance out the a stereo that's already in place in the member states so a lot of expectations were very low for this summit so this is a step capitalizing banks directly from as positive in this sense wherever it is not the solution that addresses the big questions of structural changes in the u.s. on the fundamental problems dressed going to be there seems like there's more questions than answers at this point as to how are the countries which are directly

affected by these measures expected to react. well in that sense there are more questions again how are they going to receive the decision of their leaders here in brussels the leaders here having to go back to their own countries to present these decisions you know aguilar merkel is adamant to get back to germany today because the bundestag is going to vote in the parliament is going to vote on the european stability mechanism that is a permanent bailout fund that's supposed to be put in place by july two thousand and twelve we're still waiting for ninety percent of years of members to ratify that she needs two thirds of the parliament to agree on that and we know from a sort of germany that about sixty percent of germans want to see a referendum on the germans policy so we can see some disagreements there. have to explain yourself as soon as she gets back and my colleague outside of what the explores exactly how the germans are feeling towards the decisions being made here in brussels it's a job interview with geopolitical implications and genesis family has been running

these greek restaurant for almost three decades ever since they immigrated to germany hard work and self-reliance made it to success but now they are under increasing pressure to share the fruits of their labor. the problem is that in greece the think in germany that. they come here and like the money in the street but we're also working very hard. working from the morning till night every day they get a dozen of calls from their greek can patch or split requests for money jobs of both some like mall attack is just walking in a restaurant owner himself he lost his business last year and ever since has been out of permanent work like about twenty two percent of greeks there is the second world war and destroy. our country from troops so they'll be me on people. not to help but

rest. while references to the countries nats of past have appeared more than once in the great coverage of the bailout germans remain unswayed in their position to pay for somebody else's debts polls consistently show that the majority of germans are strongly against financing greece's or spain's bailout as one customer of this restaurant put it before placing an order one should check not only the menu but also his wallet despite a broader position the german authorities are still pushing for the permanent bailout fund on thursday on going merkel appealed to be in peace to support the proposal as it goes for both in parliament. i think today a package for growth and jobs at the center of the debate and i think today it is right that we can pass it and i will support it for that i have received in clear support at home from the german parliament while the parliamentarians are widely

expected to vote in favor some say this bleed of opinions between departure and the public represents a test of germany's democratic system democracy begins at home begins begins. with a national parliament and. it. and if there's a common currency is is taking. decisions in terms of money in terms of budget it's a violation of democracy and it was. your historical mission to bring democracy in the world and now and very assertive about now. is destroying democracy they see it pays to be hardworking but in the case if europe's most productive country seems just never stopped coming

in the wake artsy reporting from germany. nigel farage i'm a peon leader of the u.k. in a panic party believes that eurozone countries won't be able to deal with their problems until they abandon their monetary union. look the eurozone is a fundamental misconstruction between economies that are so different an economic and monetary union between them was never going to work the only way forward for greece spain and portugal and such countries is to recognize that the euro is a mistake to break away from it to get their own currencies back to have a competitive devaluation and to get their own democracies back that is the only way forward what we're doing here if we keep propping up the euro we try to find ways of preserving and reinforcing failure what we're doing is guaranteeing a miserable future not just the tens of millions of people who'll be falls below the poverty line but actually we were hit by a very heavy social cost for this too in terms of insurrection and violence join

a son says he has no plans to hand over to police after being summoned for extradition procedures in his interview with the b.b.c. the whistleblower stressed that asylum law both internationally and the massaquoi takes precedence over extradition law and we can make senator has been holed up in ecuador's embassy in london for over a week waiting for the south american states to decide on his bid for political asylum ecuador has been taking its time studying the allegations that if handed over to sweden a songe could eventually face prosecution in the u.s. where espionage can carry a death sentence but several adman's founder of the national security whistleblowers coalition says the longer the delay the more chance ecuador is coming under pressure from washington. mostly what's happening right now is the political side and you have to realize that they may be and this is the ecuador need me getting all sorts of letters that petitions from activists around the world

but on the other hand they are also getting a list the ultimatum sent troops from the united states so the rest assured they right now as we speak the state department is. the. or plenty to think about by showing what kind of consequences they will be facing whether it's the nominal whether it's political and so this is the reason they are taking this long and b i'm hoping that their decision would be yes they would grant asylum to giuliana son but considering their weight the united states carries but also considering that he's three or four nation in terms of the types of measures they take to put pressure on the other governments it will remain to be seen now is no stories are always available at r.t. dot com so check out what else we have lined up for you online today drop dead gorgeous some hefty ballerinas put an artistic military display through the eyes of

the bolshoi theaters lead choreographer. and quit smoking in a shot a new york develops a vaccine to help you kick the nicotine habit find out more at r.t. dot com. facing a possible and you shortfall in the coming years britain is looking for a boost yet with no money to develop nuclear power alone must try and subdues foreign investors but it's a decision that has manning wondering if the u.k. government is putting profits before safety as artists or a further explained. britain wants to keep the light switch done and to do so it says it needs nuclear power real to secure the two things. one has to be security of supply and we don't want to have our security to supply the paulding trade over twenty three therefore to do that or all the way forward those were. doing ok but we must wait for another. energy to stop the syrian military and that

would be nuclear the u.k. might say it wants energy independence but it's clear plans need powering with money and it's money britain doesn't have investment for these plants is sorely lacking french company e.d.s. had been slated to build a number of the new plants but in the wake of the fukushima disaster these plans have been put on hold there were originally for companies that were looking at. working on developing new nuclear power stations in britain but the other two. have both now pulled out so it's almost as if the government hasn't noticed the writing on the wall that's left the u.k. government having to hunt further afield for the much needed cash despite saying they won't let the pendants on outside sources it's countries like japan and china that person's reported to have been touting around for investment and you know in a sense we're kind of offshore project for other countries i mean it seems to me

bizarre that the u.k. which is quite a big and supposed to be country. opening up of foreign investment from other countries because knowing the best route to invest in nuclear their own countries don't want to take it so they're going to have britain having being one of the first countries to go nuclear britain's power stations are now old with many being decommissioned and with nuclear accounting for around sixteen percent of the country's energy provision the government says if it doesn't get the investment in the new plants it needs it could face in any. as early as two thousand and twenty the sony clear plantin broadwell is one of eight sites the u.k. government has identified as being suitable for a new girls but local residents here say that it's far from suitable in a place while the people say that though it's unlikely where a major nuclear disaster to happen here it would be extremely hard to evacuate local communities and their if is that the governments are more concerned with

securing investments than securing their safety and there are other concerns too in a bid to attract investment the government's draft energy bill indicated that he's willing to build any plans to charge consumers high a price is to guarantee healthy profits and it seems the government has left you alternative sort of sloppy brute. pragmatism is going to happen if nuclear doesn't happen something else will and he's pointing the government already because they can get the investment in place. for the nuclear program that they wanted to have in the time that they wanted to have it despite having once led the way along the nuclear policy poor planning and investment struggles have left britain trailing behind with tapes now pinned on foreign investment that may or may not materialize the future of britain's energy provision is now not looking quite

so bright surf city london taking a look at other news from around the world the sour work tens of thousands of high school and college students have clashed with police in chile the group marched through santiago waving batterers of flags pole and fourth occasionally forms officers fired water cannon at protesters after they were hit with robson and their police van attack the government has made some concessions in the wake of recent rallies and students say the changes aren't enough. of course china stands. nine spacecraft is back safely on the ground the team including the nation's first female astronaut spent nearly two weeks in space brac to sing docking missions with a module braze the progress of words towards building its own space station china will become the third country after the u.s. and russia to sand independently maintained space hubs into orbit. us democrats are applauding

a ruling by the supreme court calling president barack obama's health care legislation constitutional under the conversational law most americans are required to purchase health insurance by two thousand and fourteen or pay a fine reforms were opposed by nearly every republican lawmaker claiming it was against the law to force people to buy a private product the courts verdict is seen as a major victory for obama as he is up for reelection in a van well if you have an opinion on obama's health care reform then do share it on our website r.t. dot com let's take a look at the side vote there at the moment well right now as you can see eighteen percent believe it will benefit both the american people and in the u.s. economy about thirteen percent and feel obama is just electioneering well and thirty one percent think it's a red herring distracting the nation. if you know in a crisis and the majority which is thirty eight percent now say is designed for insurers benefit only so do i don't know what you think by logging on to our

website r.t. dot com and now we're we're crossing straight to the world of business. manning the desk today now the russian markets are open officially so having managed to reverse thursday's losses yes they have married in five words in some are impressive numbers as soon as there are some markets open. at all but if we take a look at the numbers there you will see that the arts yes is already adding over two and a half percent of course all of this is coming from the optimism coming out from europe as well as approved prize. it's going to higher and higher finally this is what they're waiting for now also right now is the season for i knew general meetings here in boston so when it comes to russian blue chips and the country's gas monopoly gas from its holder one later in the day now the shareholders of the rules a biggest gas company will like the company's board members and approve major deals in the will also decide on the dividends which are expected to be record high this year and of course we'll keep you updated on the meeting throughout the day but we

have another story gas from and that is that the company is now involved in its hair its world dispute between china and vietnam china's oil corporation scene has started an exploration sender in the region that hanoi says infringes on blogs already licensed to a russian company as well as america's exxon mobile now beijing claims sovereignty over almost the entire south china sea which is believed to contain large oil and gas the. global trade routes analysts say gas for my quit the projects to keep its business ties with the world's second largest economy. let's continue with international markets looking at asia here which is coming up the last two hours of the trading session over the nikkei is that another one and a half percent the hand side almost two and a half hours and they're all this of course as i said coming from the optimism in europe we see that there are now very gains are getting better and better bigger bigger better and better that's also right well let's move on and take

a look at europe europe of course there is the fact that most of the markets there we have an update and that's because there is now been the proposal outlined for a single supervisory mechanism for europe's banking system banks will now have the possibility of direct recapitalization with financial assistance provided by the region's current bailout fund until the european stability mechanism becomes available and now let's take a look at how the giver is there and as you can see it's gaining against the u.s. dollar based on that optimism the ruble mick. so there are only open in session the ruble is news and against the euro but again and the greenback and as well as us of the find of that here at this notion of business for our back to marina all right maria thanks very much and good for the some date and i'll be back with an update on our top stories very shortly so stay with us.